SANTOS, Maria Paloma Alves dos.; SOUSA, José Hugo Simplicio de.; NASCIMENTO, Abdalan Andrade do.; RIBEIRO, George do Nascimento.; PRADO JUNIOR, Leonardo Souza do.; OLIVEIRA NETO, Jose Nunes de.
Resumo:
The referred research highlights the importance of water, emphasizing the knowledge of the
amount of volume in storage, as an indispensable proposition, especially in regions where there
are irregularities in the amount of rain and in the distribution over time. Remote sensing has been
gaining a lot of space in management of the basins, as it helps to identify and monitor possible
changes in natural resources. The Sumé public reservoir is located in the hydrographic basin of the
Alto Rio Paraiba, in the cariri region of Paraiba, with a maximum storage capacity of 44.8 million
m3 with a relative area of the water mirror of 8.5 million m2, to carry out this research, orbital
images from the Landsat 8/OLI, Landsat 5/TM and ETM and Landsat 7/TM and ETM+ satellites
were used. the system used for digital processing was SPRING version 5.5.1. For digital image
processing, the following methodologies were used: contrast; main components (bands 5, 4 and 3
- Landsat 5 and 7; and 6, 5 and 4 - Landsat 8); IVDN; highlight by decorrelation (DECO); adjusted
multispectral composition (CMA); and, false color composition. The RGB-CONTRASTE was the
one with the highest correlation (0.9998), accompanied by CMA-DECO with (0.9979). Remote
sensing proved to be effective for the study of water resources, being an economically viable
method with fast results.